In Q1 2020,
Covid19 was the enemy. In Q2, the enemy will be China
By John Ward
“The war is not meant to
be won, it is meant to be continuous.
Hierarchical society is only possible on the
basis of poverty and ignorance. ... The war is
waged by the ruling group against its own
subjects and its object is not the victory over
either Eurasia or East Asia, but to keep the
very structure of society intact.” -
George Orwell
April 27, 2020 "Information
Clearing House" - There has never, in
recorded history, been an event with more agendas,
unknowns and purposes than COVID19.
They seem to go on forever: distraction from Wall
Street, an excuse to clamp down on dissidents, a reset
for central banking, more delightful chaos for the EU to
use, derailing Brexit, an opportunity to make
totalitarian surveillance acceptable, a treasure trove
for billionaire nerds, a chance for the neocons to start
singing for The New Normal, a wet dream for Big Pharma,
and an infinite annual excuse to suspend liberal
democracy.
The least known of all the factors, however, remain
geopolitical: not just the whodunnit element (which
remains – quite deliberately in my view – a
wave-particle hiding in a fog of neutrinos) but even if
anyone did do it, what the motive might have
been. Opportunism, ironically, acts as a further
distraction from the original Point Zero.
Only now that we have (at long last) an increase in
the awareness that C19 is not the ultimate scourge of
Mankind, is the geopolitical element beginning to rear
its less than than attractive head. As ever, it is the
social and “news” media that are the willing carriers of
The Party Line.
These days, it is instructive to read the London Times, for
only there will you find the quintessential clarity of
Establishment Agitprop playing sweet and loud, day in
and day out.
Yesterday’s effort there
from Edward Lucas was predictable
in both content and authorship. 58 year-old Lucas
describes himself as “a security specialist”, the sort
of code for Spook-Groupie that wasn’t exactly typed out
on an Enigma machine. Over the years, linguists tell me,
the malodorous Murdoch has reduced the reading age of
the Times to fourteen. Lucas adopts this level of
persuasion with clinical accuracy.
He is in the vanguard of the next stage of
Covidaphobia: the demonisation of China. I was bitterly
disappointed to see Dominic Raab joining the genre three
days ago, when he entered the dick-size contest by
saying there would have to be “a fundamental rethink on
the way in which we do business with China in future”.
In some ways, I agree with him: I harboured grave doubts
from Day 1 about allowing Chinese designers into the
construction of Britain’s new-generation nuclear power
arrangements (they don’t want us to use Thorium, which
is insane) and I have long been a fierce critic of
appallingly made Chinese exports from solar garden
lights to circuit boards. Further, I have some doubts –
as yet, I admit, ill formed – about 5G in general…but
massive reservations about it being introduced into
Britain under the Huawei banner.
However, we have to be grown-up about this: the
demonisation of China has begun, and it is all to do
with the geopolitics of hegemony.
